Instructor: Solveig E. Pedersen Oral Comm. A111 11/12/12 Co-Cultural Identities Cultural identity is the identity of a group or culture‚ or of an individual‚ as far as one is influenced by one’s belonging to a group or culture. In recent decades‚ a new form of identification has emerged which breaks down the understanding of the individual as a coherent whole subject into a collection of various cultural identifiers. These cultural identifiers may be the result of various conditions including:
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Mesa Community College Cultural Identity Paper Andy Dufrane Psychology and Culture September 14th‚ 2013 When you think of the typical middle-class‚ white family some might draw thoughts from the classic 50’s scene of the Mother cooking‚ the Husband returning from work‚ while the Son and Daughter are doing homework at the table. I would say that I come from a White Middle-class family however like many today‚ my family was nothing like that. My mother is of Irish‚ English
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our cultural identity. From the beginning of the Internet in the early 1990s‚ people have already started relying on computers to store and share files within companies and shared groups of people. As the Internet’s development accelerated to the 2000s‚ the identity of individuals began to change. The world-wide web’s name itself tells us what it is; information constructed on a web with world-wide information. For people with access to this information‚ they learn about different cultures subliminally
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"Compare the ways in which cross-cultural identity is explored in Alice Pung’s Unpolished Gem and Mira Nair’s The Namesake" The struggle to find self identity within the upbringing of two different and contradictory cultural groups is the main theme for Alice Pung’s memoir Unpolished Gem and Mira Nair’s film The Namesake. The main characters for each‚ Alice Pung and Gogol Ganguli respectively grow up the children of immigrants from developing to western countries who are torn between respecting
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Nowadays‚ the problem of cultural identity should not be underestimated. In fact‚ in the modern globalized world there is a strong trend to losing national identity in the result of the amalgamation of culture‚ or‚ to put it more precisely‚ in the result of the growing impact of western culture on other culture of the world. At the same time‚ individuals naturally cannot live without identity. This is why willingly or not they develop certain cultural identity under the impact of a variety of internal
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Madeleine Leininger ’s Cultural Theory Madeleine Leininger founded transcultural-nursing care. She is one of the very first nurse anthropologists that recognized care and culture as two major significant phenomena in nursing (Leininger.2002). Care according to Leininger’s concepts has different meaning in different cultures but in general‚ care refers to assistive or supportive behaviors that improve an individual’s condition (Leininger.2002). According to Madeleine Leininger‚ care is essential
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Expression of Cultural Identity‚ Self-Identity‚ and Gender Two paining‚ which I choose they are traditional painting. When people watch this painting (color and thinking). It is easy for people think about traditional culture. Two pictures show people for peaceful. The sculpture I chose is the Yungang Grottoes “The work on this first period of carving lasted until the year 465 AD‚ and the caves are now known as caves 16–20. Beginning around the year 471 AD‚ in a second construction phase that
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The word Culture has many different meanings and for a long time it only seemed confined to my ethnic background. My teachers in grade school would ask me what my culture was and the first and only thing I would think of is that I’m a white American. Yes‚ that is what I am‚ but also a Woman‚ a sports geek‚ a music lover‚ a California native‚ a waitress‚ a student and many more. From the moment I was born‚ I was put into multiple different culture groups. Some which were by choice while others I chose
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What is culture it doesn’t just define your race or skin color. There is more thing that define cultural identity. It like saying you can’t judge a book by its cover. It’s the same thing about talking about a person. You need to get to know the person. I am Hispanic Latino and I may look Mexican or may even think act like one too‚ but people need to get know me and other before they judge someone. There are many way that culture identify someone. Religion even though my family and I are Catholic
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that used to belong to my grandparents. My mother and father made a point of decorating our house with items that had a sentimental value to my grandparents. This is because the majority of my parent’s cultural values were shaped by their elders and they thought it was important to pass these cultural values down to my sister and I. They did this by filling the house with objects that had significance to my grandparents. Despite being deceased my grandparents still had a presence in my day to day
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